{"id":6053,"date":"2021-06-16T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2021-06-16T10:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T18:53:58","slug":"california-children-participate-in-clinical-trial-of-pfizer-vaccine-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/california-children-participate-in-clinical-trial-of-pfizer-vaccine-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"California Children Participate in Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Approximately 75 children between the ages of 5 and 11 years old living in California are participating in a clinical trial of the Pfizer\/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pharmaceutical officials have suggested that they may apply for federal emergency use authorization to distribute it starting in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Through Kaiser Permanente Northern California, 11-year-old Sacramento resident Luci Guardino was one of the first to receive the pediatric version of the vaccine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"I want everyone to know that the COVID vaccine is safe and will allow us to go back to a completely normal life ... doing simple things like going to the movies or eating at home or having friends over,\" he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guardino joins about 4,600 children at dozens of sites across the country participating in Pfizer's pediatric vaccine trial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research<\/a>The trial has a double-blind design, meaning that neither the participants nor the researchers know whether a vaccine or a placebo is being administered; in this case, two-thirds of the children will receive the vaccine and one-third the placebo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through a statement, he explained that participants receive a lower dose of the vaccine than that administered to adults and adolescents, although the rest of the vaccination process is the same: two doses 21 days apart and careful monitoring for side effects or negative reactions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trial continues to track participants for 2 years even if the vaccine is available to children before the end of the trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Permanente's participation in the Pfizer pediatric trial is administered by its Oakland-based Vaccine Study Center, led by center director Nicola Klein, who emphasized the importance of vaccinating children even if they don't get as sick from COVID-19 as older people do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Children and teens can benefit from COVID-19 protection so they can safely return to school, sports and other activities,\" said Klein, a scientist in Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted that new and future variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus raise the possibility that COVID-19 may behave differently in young people in the future, becoming more dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, he said that given the hospitalizations and deaths of children from COVID-19 so far, the disease is \"comparable to other diseases that we vaccinate children for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be interested in: Pfizer and AztraZeneca Vaccines Protect Against Delta Variant of COVID-19<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aproximadamente 75 ni\u00f1os de entre 5 y 11 a\u00f1os de edad residentes de California participan en un ensayo cl\u00ednico de la vacuna Pfizer\/BioNTech contra COVID-19. Funcionarios de la farmac\u00e9utica han sugerido que pueden solicitar la autorizaci\u00f3n federal de uso de emergencia para distribuirla a partir de septiembre.  A trav\u00e9s de Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Luci […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,170,2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-covid19","9":"category-peninsula","10":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6055,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions\/6055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}